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ignomy

ignomy is the obsolete spelling of ignominy.

Meaning of ignominy

Noun

ignominy (countable and uncountable, plural ignominies)

  1. Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
    • Near-synonym: bad name
    Synonyms:
    bad name

Forms of ignomy

pluralignomies

Origin of ignomy

Syncopic form of ignominy.

Questions about ignomy

What is ignomy the obsolete spelling of?
Ignomy is the obsolete spelling of ignominy.

Words near ignomy in the dictionary

  1. ignominity
  2. ignominous
  3. ignominy
  4. ignomous
  5. ignomously
  6. ignomy
  7. ignorabilities
  8. ignorability
  9. ignorabimus
  10. ignorabimuses
  11. ignorable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ignomy (page history and authors); ignominy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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